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Simon Hoggart's week: the new Christmas traditionshttps://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/dec/28/christmas-traditions
The grand old British tradition of the Boxing Day hunt is having it both ways<p><strong>1 </strong>The Boxing Day non-hunt. It's a magnificent sight, as the huntsmen in scarlet gather outside the old half-timbered tavern with their stirrup cups, hounds yelping and yowling with anticipation, the horses' nostrils seeming to snort smoke like steam trains – a scene immortalised in so many hunting prints and table mats. Then through the frosty air comes the brass bellow of the horn, and with a clattering of hooves on cobbles and cheers from the onlookers, the hunt races off, over hedges and ditches, after nothing much in particular.</p><p>Until, that is, the horn sounds "gone to earth!" the ancient signal that an RSPCA inspector has found safe refuge in a local radio station where he is to take part in today's top topical discussion: "Hunting: grand old British tradition or sadistic assault on innocent animals?"</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/dec/28/christmas-traditions">Continue reading...</a>HuntingUK newsChristmasLife and styleFri, 28 Dec 2012 17:53:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/dec/28/christmas-traditionsPhotograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images EuropeRiders and hounds from the Avon Vale Hunt arrive for their traditional Boxing Day hunt in Lacock. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images EuropePhotograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images EuropeRiders and hounds from the Avon Vale Hunt arrive for their traditional Boxing Day hunt in Lacock. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images EuropeSimon Hoggart2012-12-28T17:53:06Z